Not a great story, but not a crisis. Now add photos that show the walls in that child detention facility are made out of fencing, not sheetrock. Show the kids sleeping rough with mylar blankets. Play the tape of a frightened child crying.

Boom. You just blew the entire story up.

This is the power of seeing. It’s visceral, it chases away perspective and clear reason. But it’s not all powerful.

The takeaway from the classic quote misattributed to Otto von Bismarck - “Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made” - is that we still eat sausages. Because they’re good.

Unpleasant things are going to keep happening at America’s southern border, because the situation is bad. Just like Europe’s southern border is bad.

Long before people started comparing Trump’s border policy to concentration camps, families were flocking to the border.

The Pew Research Centre estimates that 11.3 million unauthorised immigrants were living in the US in 2016.

Should they all just get to stay? Or should they be arrested, detained and then sent away? Well, the former means you have no borders. But according to the media coverage this week, the latter means you means you wear jackboots and a red armband.